Chapters (64)
- Cover
- Title page
- Dedication page
- A Week’s Work in Birmingham
- I
- One
- Two
- Three
- Four
- Five
- Six
- Seven
- Eight
- Nine
- Ten
- Eleven
- Twelve
- Thirteen
- Fourteen
- Fifteen
- Sixteen
- Seventeen
- Eighteen
- Nineteen
- Twenty
- Twenty-One
- Twenty-Two
- Twenty-Three
- Twenty-Four
- II
- Twenty-Five
- Twenty-Six
- Twenty-Seven
- Twenty-Eight
- Twenty-Nine
- Thirty
- Thirty-One
- Thirty-Two
- Thirty-Three
- Thirty-Four
- Thirty-Five
- Thirty-Six
- Thirty-Seven
- Thirty-Eight
- Thirty-Nine
- III
- Forty
- Forty-One
- Forty-Two
- Forty-Three
- Forty-Four
- Forty-Five
- Forty-Six
- Forty-Seven
- Forty-Eight
- Forty-Nine
- Fifty
- Fifty-One
- Fifty-Two
- Fifty-Three
- Acknowledgements
- Further Reading
- About the Author
- By the Same Author
She reached up to kiss him again. ‘Oh, I will be,’ she said. ‘Of course I will – my dear, dear love.’
Acknowledgements
Acknowledgements
My thanks to the staff and enthusiastic volunteers at the following Jewellery Quarter Museums:
Museum of the Jewellery Quarter, Vyse Street; J. W. Evans Silver Factory, Albion Street; The Coffin Works, Fleet Street and The Pen Museum, Frederick Street.
Also to Grace King, Silversmith, for her smithing workshop, which gave me a few welcome experiences of metal-bashing.
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Further Reading
Further Reading
My information came from a wide range of sources, but these were the main books:
Jewellery Making in Birmingham 1750–1995 by Shena Mason
The Jewellery Quarter, History and Guide by Marie Haddleton
Birmingham’s Jewellery Quarter by Alison Gledhill
Jewels of Our City: Birmingham’s Jewellery Quarter by Jean Debney
Hockley by David Harvey
Birmingham and the Midland Hardware District, ed. Samuel Timmins
Brief History of the Birmingham Pen Trade, Birmingham Pen trade Heritage Association
They Worked All Their Lives: Women of the Urban Poor 1880–1939 by Carl Chinn
Poverty Amid Prosperity: The Urban Poor 1834–1914 by Carl Chinn
Birmingham’s Industrial Heritage 1900–2000 by Ray Shill
A History of Birmingham by Chris Upton
The Girl from Hockley by Kathleen Dayus
Seeing Birmingham by Tram by Eric Armstrong
Finely Taught, Finely Wrought: The Birmingham School of Silversmithing 1890–1990, compiled by Barbara Newport
A Silversmith’s Manual by Bernard Cuzner
The Edwardians by Paul Thompson
Lost Voices of the Edwardians, ed. Max Arthur
By Hammer and Hand: The Arts and Crafts Movement in Birmingham by Alan Crawford
The Arts and Crafts Movement in Britain by Mary Greensted
A New Light on Tiffany: Clara Driscoll and the Tiffany Girls by Martin Eidelberg, Nina Gray and Margaret K. Hofer
About the Author
Annie Murray was born in Berkshire and read English at St John’s College, Oxford. Her first ‘Birmingham’ story, Birmingham Rose, hit the Sunday Times bestseller list when it was published in 1995. She has subsequently written many other successful novels, including Chocolate Girls and War Babies. Sisters of Gold is Annie’s twenty-second novel, after the top ten bestselling The Doorstep Child. Annie has four children and lives near Reading.
By the Same Author
BY THE SAME AUTHOR
Birmingham Rose
Birmingham Friends
Birmingham Blitz
Orphan of Angel Street
Poppy Day
The Narrowboat Girl
Chocolate Girls
Water Gypsies
Miss Purdy’s Class
Family of Women
Where Earth Meets Sky
The Bells of Bournville Green
A Hopscotch Summer
Soldier Girl
All the Days of Our Lives
My Daughter, My Mother
The Women of Lilac Street
Meet Me Under the Clock
War Babies
Now the War is Over
The Doorstep Child